The Toronto Community Housing Corp. will probably need to launch additional investigations into its own activities when the financial probe the Star revealed Wednesday is done, chief executive Gene Jones says.

The city-owned public housing agency has hired a forensic accounting firm to study possible document falsification and other possible wrongdoing by a former subsidiary, Housing Services Inc. Forensic accountants are also examining allegations of kickbacks and double-billing announced by Jones in February.

“There may be more subsequent to that. Hopefully not, but I’m pretty sure there will be,” Jones told reporters outside a Weston Rd. TCHC building where Mayor Rob Ford knocked on doors and offered residents help with maintenance needs on Wednesday afternoon.

“This is just not the last of it,” Jones said. “There’s probably going to be a little bit more, because of some of the things that we’ve been seeing over the years that have been happening here that we need to make sure that is being done correctly.”

Jones would not discuss details of the investigation of Housing Services. He played down the employee complaints that led to a second ongoing investigation the Star revealed Wednesday, an examination by city ombudsman Fiona Crean of his personnel practices.

Employees have told Crean that Jones has hired and promoted managers without allowing competition for the jobs or following approved personnel policies. Jones refused to say whether that is true.

“Staff always complain about everything,” he said. “You guys know, you’re in the news media, your staff complains too. We complain about everything. I complain, okay? So we’re just going through the process.”

Ford said he knows little about the Housing Services investigation. “If people got to go to jail, they got to go to jail,” he told reporters.

Ford offered a strong endorsement of Jones, who was hired in 2012 with the mayor’s backing. The previous chief executive, Keiko Nakamura, was fired in 2011 in the wake of a spending and procurement scandal.

“He’s come in, he’s cleaned house, he’s done what he has to do,” Ford said. “I support him 100 per cent. So if people want to take shots at him, I’m going to stick up for him, because I know he’s done a good job. He’s done the best he can. And he’s been efficient at doing it. He hasn’t been coming back with his hand out asking for more money all the time.”

Pressed about the apparent ongoing problems, Ford said, “We’re working on it. That’s the mess we inherited.

“That was a complete disaster. You saw it. And within three years, I’m going to give credit to Eugene Jones and staff for straightening it out. Is it perfect? It’s not perfect yet. But we’re getting there. You know all the corruption and scandals that were going on. It takes a while. He had to clean house. He did a good job of cleaning house. And I’m sure he still has to do some more cleaning.”

Jones said the current investigations will likely be completed in 30 to 60 days.

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